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alterouspotato · 6 years
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I’m really glad that we as a society haven’t grown tired of seeing Keira Knightley in period clothing
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Hey, if anyone’s curious I’m on Pillowfort as MelodyJaikes!  I plan to gradually migrate from Tumblr to Pfio as the latter gets more active, but it’ll probably be awhile before this blog goes really goes dormant.
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Magic  level 99999
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alterouspotato · 6 years
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Autistic Shakespeare:
“Shall I compare thee to a sensory blanket? Thou art most lovely and temperate.”
“Romeo, O Romeo, wherefore is thine father the head of Autism $peaks?”
“Alas, with a flap, I stim.”
“To stim or not to stim. That is the question. To which the answer is yes, always.”
“Do you bite your necklace at me, good sir?”
“Alas, poor Yorick, he stimmed quite well.”
“Double, double, toil and trouble. Stim and watch the cauldron bubble.”
“Out, damned puzzle piece. OUT, I SAY!”
“By the pricking of mine thumbs, something wicked this way comes. *Autism $peaks enters.*”
“Hell is empty, and all the puzzle pieces are here!”
@ Autism $peaks/anti-vaxxers/etc,. “A rose by any other name would smell less bullshitty than thine do.”
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alterouspotato · 6 years
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When you throw out the packaging of a microwave dinner and immediately forget how long to microwave it for
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my cat: mrow
me, a dumbass: mrow? meow mewmrooowwwww mrow meow!!
my cat:
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Ne forget pas les quatres food groupes mes amis!
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This picture of a bunch of college kids trying to keep from getting busted by the police is like something from a baroque painting
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alterouspotato · 6 years
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Artemis on his birthday: [holding a pencil to his mouth like a cigarette] i’m so old now… my bones crack and creak every time i move… i have seen so many things in my life…
Holly, putting candles that say “15” on his cake: yeah, okay, sure
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alterouspotato · 6 years
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“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.
It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.
It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.
A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.
True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.
And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.
It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.
It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.
If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.
It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.
It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.
It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest, in Thought Catalog
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i made my first photoshop thing
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i love it
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man… the only animal to ride the horse
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